Friday, September 25, 2015

And so it ends, with a
whimper, not with a bang, the insufferable run of Gail Simone in Red Sonja:
She-Devil With a Sword. She will not be missed, sad to say. Now, as soon as
the over-inflated, redundant, and in the end, utterly useless Swords of Sorrow
is over, maybe we can ascribe all of it to a bad dream, a liquor-inspired
nightmare from Simone's usually drunk Sonja.

The last panel of the
story, after the lamest finish one has memory of, promises Next: Red Sonja
Reborn. As a promise, it is tantalizing, a return to healthier and happier
times, to a more purposeful Sonja, not this dreg of politically
correct-propelled walking-ad for self-pitiful wannabe-feminists. However, one
bears in mind the implied threat of Simone, proffered in the already quoted
interview from Previews World, that Swords of Sorrow would change
everything in all the books of the crossover event. That doesn't bode well for
poor ill-treated Red Sonja.